What's your problem? Every Tom, Dick and Harry keeps fish. Very few are
lucky enough to have a beautiful snake to keep. What about stocking your
pool with cheap fish rather than fashionably dear ones? I am sure the
snake
won't mind. In due course you might be rewarded with a colony of snakes.

[snip]

[Franz Heymann]
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Don't know about Tom and Dicks fish but ours, about 60, of them are all self
breed from 4 goldfish and 4 shubumkins that we bought about 20 years ago.
They mean a lot to us and have given us much pleasure sitting by the pond
watching them dart about. So snakes are not welcome and get removed to a
much bigger pond up the road.

Harry